1.The role of British social workers in health and elderly care and its implications for China
Chinese Medical Ethics 2026;39(1):138-142
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to implement the strategy of actively responding to population aging, charting a clear direction for China’s elderly care initiatives. Under this background, social workers serve as vital human resources in the elderly care service system, and the full realization of their roles and functions is of great importance. British social workers, through long-term practice in the field of health and elderly care, have developed multifaceted roles, such as providers of personalized care, defenders of rights and interests, educators of health, protectors under special circumstances, collaborators of innovation and development, and supporters in the field of health and elderly care, offering valuable insights for China. Combined with the realities of an aging society, efforts should be advanced from four aspects, including enhancing the recognition of social workers, strengthening their professional skills, promoting cooperation with the elderly care industry, and safeguarding the rights of the elderly, with a view to enabling social workers to better provide high-quality services for Chinese elderly groups in the field of health and elderly care.
2.Cultivation paths of prosocial behavioral tendency in medical humanities education: an integrated study based on reflective writing
Linya JIN ; Yeran LIU ; Mei YIN
Chinese Medical Ethics 2026;39(6):834-841
In response to the dilemma of professional burnout caused by the “altruism paradox” in traditional medical humanities education, this paper explored cultivation paths of prosocial behavioral tendency among medical students based on reflective writing. Adopting a mixed-methods research approach, this study verified the intervention effect of structured reflective writing on prosocial behavioral tendency through randomized controlled trials and qualitative textual analysis. The results demonstrated that the score of prosocial behavioral tendency in the experimental group (0.590±0.498) was significantly higher than that in the control group (0.357±0.485, χ²=4.393, P=0.036). Qualitative analysis extracted five core themes such as “prosocial cognition” and “empathy deepening” and “dilemma coping.” It revealed that reflective writing, through three mechanisms of narrative reconstruction, situational deconstruction, and empathy mapping, activated the needs for autonomy, competence, and belongingness in self-determination theory, thereby driving medical students to shift from a technical operation-oriented model to a “patient-centered” model. This study preliminarily confirmed that reflective writing was a feasible attempt to alleviate the dilemma of “separation of knowledge and practice” in medical humanities, providing theoretical and practical references for the practice of medical humanities education.
3. The difference expression and diagnostic value of RPL5 in papillary thyroid carcinoma of children and adults
Yaqiong JIN ; Shengcai WANG ; Jun TAI ; Jie ZHANG ; Feng CHEN ; Jin SHI ; Yongbo YU ; Yeran YANG ; Huimin REN ; Di GENG ; Yuanhu LIU ; Yongli GUO ; Xin NI
Chinese Journal of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2017;52(11):830-834
Objective:
To study the difference expression and diagnostic value of ribosomal protein L5 (RPL5) in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) of children and adults.
Methods:
Realtime-PCR was performed to detect the expression of RPL5 in 22 PTC tissues and 13 pericarcinous tissues. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and Youden's index were used to evaluate the diagnostic value of RPL5 in PTC of children and adults.
Results:
The expression of RPL5 in PTC tissues was higher than in pericarcinous tissues. The area under curve (AUC) was 0.820 (

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